Chapter 1731: Tactical Artillery
War is always a catalyst for all kinds of weapons, in history, two world wars, the birth of countless high-quality weapons, and even some aspects have affected the civilian population, in peacetime, perhaps a weapon from the argumentation, to the initial formation, it will take a few years, and even there will be a long time in the middle, step by step modification, but when the war comes, everything must serve the war, everything must make way for the war, what the war needs, what is produced, what is designed, This is a hard indicator. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Historically, this is the case, and even more so in this plane, and even on this plane, the strength of Germany and the rise of China have put the Entente under tremendous pressure, and even Britain has to open its naval technology to the United States under German pressure.
You know, in the original plane, the United States' naval technology, until World War II, can not be regarded as the top, Britain even cheapened Japan, cultivated Japan such a big enemy, are unwilling to help the United States, decades of naval power, before the First World War, dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts in the competition, Britain has always been the best in the world, after World War I was greatly weakened, in World War II, also came up with a few good battleships and aircraft carriers, but based on economic aggregate and industrial processing capacity, It can't be compared to the United States.
Now, Britain has let go of high-end technology, and the United States has taken at least 10 to 20 years of detours, and the technology of naval technology and naval artillery has directly reached the top of this era, and under the collision of technologies between the two sides, the warship technology and artillery technology of the US military have made even greater progress.
On such a basis, under the steel foundation that can produce 15-inch naval guns, it is necessary to produce a model that meets the requirements
The United States is on the Juno front, there is a lack of artillery with a range of more than 20 kilometers, so the design, under the premise of a strong foundation, it is not a problem for an industrial country to do this, especially the United States, it is simply easy to complete the design and production, and the speed is very fast.
After the War Department issued the artillery indicators, countless artillery experts gathered together, without considering cost performance, suitability, and field performance, after all, that is something that will be considered later, it is simply a range, first solve the problem of whether there is or not, many experts expressed their opinions, and even used some methods that have long been proven to be wrong. That's right, it's so simple and crude, the United States is worse than the range, as for the rest, at this time, everything is in the service of the war, everything else is not important, even if it is a little out of line in other aspects, there is no problem.
Soon, a slightly weird artillery with enough range appeared on the design drawings, and it was verified that this artillery was achievable and had the ability to process it by using the method of calculation, which was enough.
It took 7 days for the United States to design, and the design drawings were handed over to industrial production, and the most cutting-edge factories in the United States, the best craftsmen, almost with a combination of pure manual and mechanical methods, completed the construction of 2 guns, and after a day of non-stop verification, after proving the performance and reliability of this artillery, this gun was finalized.
Added up before and after, it is less than half a month, which is an unimaginable miracle for peacetime, but when the war comes, this is normal, and even this is not the fastest.
Special affairs, the United States is already anxious for Juno, millions of troops are on the Juno's front, there is absolutely a lot of food, drink and spending every day, pensions, tank losses, and the consumption of attacks, these are already huge numbers, the demand for artillery is ambitious, in fact, when the hand-built samples are being tested, the construction of a similar production line has begun, and the military department has a transfer fund for the production of this artillery, and in the attention from top to bottom, the production of this artillery is quite fast.
This is a new artillery, it is a completely different artillery from the previous artillery, but in the seven days after the design was finalized, the United States, with its strong productivity, used a combination of manual and mechanical methods to produce 500 guns, completed the construction of a simple production line, and in the next half a month, there will be at least 2,000 guns of more than 155 to complete the production.
The front line is 100,000 urgent, and the United States can't wait for all the artillery to be produced, there must be a batch of lines to send a batch, 500 artillery pieces produced by hand, and transported to the battlefield at the fastest speed, I have to say that with the existing accumulation of the United States, if you want to produce 155 guns with a range of more than 20 kilometers, and still meet the needs of the whole, at least it will not be too heavy, it is very difficult, you can only increase the barrel, after increasing the barrel, the overall center of gravity will have a problem, and then you have to strengthen the gun carriage and so on. With such one plus two pluses, the new 155 is more than 60% heavier than the original American 155, not to mention China, at least twice as much.
In terms of weight, it is no longer suitable for field combat, not to mention the block, seven plus eight plus, the block is very large, but in order to balance the center of gravity, artillery experts creatively made a part of the protective shield, which actually made this simple attack artillery have a certain amount of protection, especially on the battlefield, with the help of sandbags and other fixed protection, it can be said that it is the strongest artillery in the entire World War I, which can be regarded as an unintentional insertion.
A gun, can not be said to catch up with a tank, at least almost half of it, the United States in order to transport, also spent a lot of effort, sent at least 100,000 troops, to ensure this transportation, this batch of artillery is very small, even if all are produced, it will not exceed 20,000, from production to transportation, all to the battle line, I am afraid it is already winter, but it also has to be produced and transported, these artillery guns are used to ensure the safety of the entire US military position, only in this way, Only then can the tanks of the US military play an effective role.
This time, the biggest difficulty for the United States is still in the process of transportation, on land it was not hindered by Japan, and the Japanese special forces suffered serious losses, and the current form of war is that the United States has the upper hand, and the losses of tanks are very large, but the natural advantage of tanks over infantry makes it impossible for Japan to cope with it even if they have bazookas, and they are tired of resisting the US attack, and they have not thought at all that the United States is still making rapid adjustments.
Japan also wants to increase the number of bazookas, but it takes time to train a suitable bazooka player, and the price of rocket artillery is also a concern for Japan. If rocket artillery is really the nemesis of tanks, like Germany, it can easily kill American tanks, but obviously, the current situation is no, many times, the role of bazooka is similar to that of blasters and cluster grenades, in this case, Japan, which advocates economic benefits, is of course unwilling to invest.
The Japanese War Department also discovered the seriousness of the tank, and the previous arrangements seemed to be gradually cracked by the US military, if it were not for the superiority of artillery, they might have really had a big problem, but Japan did not expect that the United States had begun to arrange for artillery anyway.
I have to say that Japan is not able to become a great power in this regard, they do not have the consciousness of modern warfare, the fighter planes are in such omissions, and they are gradually delayed, Japan itself is only under the attack of tanks, falling behind, and the strategic advantage has shifted to the US military, this, China can see it, but Japan does not see it, according to Japan's ideas, it is not a disadvantage, every time it can destroy a part of the tank, the American tanks are not endless, as long as the tanks are exhausted, Juno's defense line, It is still thick enough to withstand the attack of the United States.
When the first batch of 200 artillery pieces came to the front line, there was a dramatic change in the scene, and the Japanese army, which was still attacking and defending with the US army, was immediately suppressed, although the American artillery was still unable to reach the Japanese long-range artillery fire, but it was placed in the rear, at least outside the range of Japanese artillery fire, but it could be enough to go to the front line.
At this moment, Japan is sad, enough firepower to cover, enough to make a large tank trench have nothing to hide, when they have previous experience, they know very well that when the tank charges, a huge tank trench for the tank's lethality, that is huge, especially when the tank is running at high speed, the appearance of a tank trench, not only will have a huge blow to the armored troops, but also easy to slow down the movement of the tank, everyone knows that on the battlefield, the most important thing is to hesitate, whether it is to rush forward, or to retreat, must be resolute, but the appearance of the tank trench, the tank can not continue to charge at the moment of charging, must turn and retreat, the tank that loses speed is the most vulnerable to hit, whether it is a single weapon, or artillery, it is easy to kill him, because the biggest advantage of the tank is speed, a simple steel turret, which does not have much strength.
It is precisely because of the many previous experiences that after the United States put this batch of artillery in place, it immediately placed it in the Japanese army's farthest range of 5 kilometers, a range of more than 22 kilometers, and it is easiest for him to cross 20 kilometers faster to reach the Japanese front line, every time a tank attacks, this batch of artillery is covered by artillery fire regardless of the cost, and firepower reconnaissance is carried out to clear the obstacles for the tank attack. Such a tactical artillery is worth the effort to be sent to the front. (To be continued.) )